Malcolm Bull

Malcolm Bull is the author of Seeing Things Hidden and Anti-Nietzsche, out shortly from Verso.

In the LRB Archive:

• The Whale Inside: How to be a community · 1 January 2009

  • Bíos: Biopolitics and Philosophy by Roberto Esposito, translated by Timothy Campbell

• The Catastrophist: The Apostasies of John Gray · 1 November 2007

  • Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia by John Gray

• Ultimate Choice: Thoughts of Genocide · 9 February 2006

  • The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing by Michael Mann
  • Genocide in the Age of the Nation State. Vol. I: The Meaning of Genocide by Mark Levene
  • Genocide in the Age of the Nation State: Vol. II: The Rise of the West and the Coming of Genocide by Mark Levene

• States don’t really mind their citizens dying (provided they don’t all do it at once): they just don’t like anyone else to kill them: Giorgio Agamben · 16 December 2004

  • State of Exception by Giorgio Agamben, translated by Kevin Attell

• You can’t build a new society with a Stanley knife: Hardt and Negri’s Empire · 4 October 2001

  • Empire by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri

• Hate is the new love: Slavoj Žižek · 25 January 2001

  • The Fragile Absolute or why is the christian legacy worth fighting for? by Slavoj Žižek

• Tick-Tock: Three Cheers for Apocalypse · 9 December 1999

  • Conversations about the End of Time by Umberto Eco and Stephen Jay Gould
  • Apocalypses: Prophesies, Cults and Millennial Beliefs throughout the Ages by Eugen Weber
  • Messianic Revolution: Radical Religious Politics to the End of the Second Millennium by Richard Popkin and David Katz

• Anybody’s · 23 March 1995

  • Nicolas Poussin, 1594-1665 by Pierre Rosenberg and Louis-Antoine Prat
  • Nicolas Poussin by Anthony Blunt
  • Nicolas Poussin 1594-1665 by Richard Verdi, with an essay by Pierre Rosenberg
  • Roma 1630: Il trionfo del pennello edited by Olivier Bonfait
  • Poussin before Rome 1594-1624 by Jacques Thuillier
  • The Expression of the Passions by Jennifer Montagu
  • L’Ecole du silence by Marc Fumaroli
  • To Destroy Painting by Louis Marin, translated by Mette Hjort

• One and Only · 23 February 1995

  • The Holocaust in Historical Context. Vol. I: The Holocaust and Mass Death before the Modern Age by Steven Katz

• It’s the Poor … · 26 January 1995

  • The Ruin of Kasch by Roberto Calasso, translated by William Weaver and Stephen Sartarelli

• Oedipus was innocent · 10 March 1994

  • Cosmos, Chaos and the World to Come: The Ancient Roots of Apocalyptic Faith by Norman Cohn

• Corn · 6 January 1994

  • The Road to Wellville by T. Coraghessan Boyle
  • The Collected Stories by T. Coraghessan Boyle

• The End · 11 March 1993

  • Posthistoire: Has History Come to an End? by Lutz Niethammer, translated by Patrick Camiller
  • When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture by Paul Boyer

• Who was the first to make a pact with the devil? · 14 May 1992

  • Modernity and Identity edited by Scott Lash and Jonathan Friedman
  • Fundamentalisms Observed edited by Martin Marty and Scott Appleby
  • The Post-Modern and the Post-Industrial by Margaret Rose
  • Under God: Religion and American Politics by Garry Wills

• How smart was Poussin? · 4 April 1991

  • Nicolas Poussin by Alain Mérot, translated by Fabia Claris
  • Nicolas Poussin: Dialectics of Painting by Oskar Bätschmann, translated by Marko Daniel
  • Ideal Landscape: Annibale Carracci, Nicolas Poussin and Claude Lorrain by Margaretha Rossholm Lagerlöf

• Hot Dogs · 14 June 1990

  • Mine eyes have seen the glory: A Journey into the Evangelical Subculture in America by Randall Balmer
  • In God’s Country: Travels in the Bible Belt, USA by Douglas Kennedy
  • The Divine Supermarket by Malise Ruthven
  • The Democratisation of American Christianity by Nathan Hatch
  • Religion and 20th-Century American Intellectual Life edited by Michael Lacey
  • New Religions and the Theological Imagination in America by Mary Farrell Bednarowski

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